Blue Jays Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Random music news for Thursday, August 13, 2020

I apologize for the dearth of postings yesterday but the website was feeling a little ill. All better in time

There’s a CBC report today on how the Toronto Blue Jays are scalping their own tickets. The report says that

In a shrewd marketing move–hey, how many people have heard of Blimp Rock before now?–a Toronto band is asking for

Forgive us, world. Toronto has gone a little crazy over baseball lately. Polaris Music Prize shortlisters Zeus have covered the

It’s been a long time since the Blue Jays faced Kansas City in the American League Championship Series, a series

Eddie Vedder is a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, one of those people who people that the Curse of the Billy

The American League Division Series starts today and more than a few people (including me) are irrationally worried about the

I’m not a superstitious person. Not at all. Except when it comes to sports. With the Blue Jays in the

Toronto and many other parts of Canada lost its collective mind yesterday when the Blue Jays clinched their first division

Before the strike of ’94, I was a fanatical baseball fan. I could recite the Blue Jays’ batting order forward,

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver